Cargo · checked 15 August 2026 · Amerijet updated 19 August

The pay site says UPS flies 42 MD-11s.

It doesn't. The last one was retired months ago and 275 pilots were retrained off it. That number is still sitting on the page most cargo pilots check before making a career decision — with no date next to it telling you how old it is.

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carrier pages publish no update date at all
Mar 2024
newest date on any page that has one
~40%
FedEx raise the published rates predate

The two that matter most

UPS Airlines Independent Pilots Association · ANC MIA ONT SDF
page dated Sep 26, 2022
Fleet
Published today
747-400: 13 · 747-8: 26 · A300: 52 · B757: 75 · B767: 80 · MD11: 42
Actually
The entire MD-11F fleet is gone. Retirement was accelerated after the crash of Flight 2976 on 4 Nov 2025, and roughly 275 MD-11 pilots were retrained onto the 767 and A300 — 8 to 10 weeks each, bid by company seniority. No furloughs.
A pilot weighing UPS against another carrier is reading a fleet list with 42 aircraft in it that no longer exist, and a seniority picture that has since been reshuffled by 275 people changing seats.
Pilot headcount
Published today
3,446 total · 3,446 active · 0 furloughed
tagged "last updated: September 26, 2022 (Pilots)"
Actually
IPA was down to roughly 3,200 after 193 senior pilots took buyouts, and that was November 2023 — nearly three years ago. UPS has since announced 30,000 job cuts company-wide for 2026 amid the Amazon volume glide-down.
Pay — and here's the real problem
This part is current
Rates shown effective 1 Sep 2025. Top CA $401/hr, FO $284/hr. Per diem $3.35 dom / $3.95 int'l. A Plan + 12% B Plan, no 401(k) match.
But
The only date the page shows you is September 2022 — attached to the headcount. Pay is eleven months old. Fleet is flatly wrong. Headcount is four years old. All three sit on one page under one date.
This is the actual failure. Not that everything is stale — some of it is fine. It's that the freshness is per-field and invisible, so you cannot tell which numbers to trust. A number with no date is worse than no number, because you'll act on it.
FedEx Express ALPA · MEM LAX ANC IND OAK
no date published
Pay rates
Published today
FO yr 1 $81 (737/757) / $84 (widebody)
FO yr 15 $209 / $237
CA yr 1 $234 / $276
CA yr 15 $289 / $335
Actually
FedEx pilots ratified a new contract on 9 June 2026 — 83% in favor on 98.5% turnout, ending a nearly five-year negotiation. Effective 29 June 2026, amendable December 2030. It carries hourly pay increases of nearly 40% this year, then 3% annually from 2028.
Every FedEx rate on that page predates a ~40% raise that took effect seven weeks ago — and the page carries no date whatsoever to warn you. Anyone comparing FedEx to UPS or Atlas right now is comparing against a number that is off by nearly half.
Everything else on the page
Published today
5,808 pilots · 74-hr monthly guarantee · per diem $2.30/$3.15 · A Fund capped $130k/yr after 25 · B Fund 9%
Unknown
The ratified contract explicitly covers compensation, retirement, scheduling, work rules and job protections. Which of these figures survived it is not something I can tell from outside. A FedEx pilot could tell you in thirty seconds.

Why this happens, and why it won't fix itself

These pages are maintained by hand, by a small team, for 95+ carriers. That model worked when contracts sat unchanged for a decade. It broke when the 2022–2026 bargaining wave rewrote nearly every agreement in the industry at once — and it cannot be fixed by trying harder, because the labor of it scales with the number of carriers while the revenue doesn't. The people who always know the current answer are the pilots living under the contract. They are simply never asked.

The other four — and what I couldn't verify

Atlas Air Teamsters Local 2750 · MIA JFK ANC LAX ORD SEA
no date published
Published today
2,880 pilots · 747: 65, 767: 10, 777: 13
FO $103–226 · CA $240–332 (yr 1–12)
64-hr guarantee · positive-space commuting · business class DH over 4.5 hrs
401(k): 14% eff. 1/1/25, 16% eff. 1/1/26
Needs a line pilot
Those 401(k) step-ups were written as future dates and both have now passed — so is 16% live today, or did something supersede it? No date on the page means no way to know whether this reflects the current agreement or a snapshot from 2024. Ask an Atlas guy.
Kalitta Air ALPA · YIP only
page dated 3/29/2024
Published today
835 pilots · 747-400: 23, 777-200: 5
FO yr 12 $213 · CA yr 12 $316
64-hr guarantee both line and reserve · 12% direct, no match
Worth noting
This page carries the single most useful line in the whole cargo section — "Reserve is not treated like traditional reserve staffing. Reserve line holders often end up flying just as much or more than Hard line holders." That is not contract text. That is a pilot talking. It's exactly the kind of thing that only comes from the line, and there is almost none of it anywhere else on the site.
Two and a half years old, but at least it says so. That alone makes it more trustworthy than the FedEx page.
ABX Air Teamsters / APA · CVG
no date published
Published today
312 pilots · 767-200: 8, 767-300: 24
FO $104–204 · CA $158–302 (yr 1–12)
65-hr guarantee · min 14 days off per bid period · week-on/week-off or 16–17 on / 14 off
Per diem flat $65/day dom, rising $3/yr through 2030 · 401(k) 12% → 15% by 2027
Needs a line pilot
Again the escalators are written forward to 2027 and 2030, which means this was accurate when written and silently decays every January. Which step are they actually on right now? An ABX pilot knows. The page doesn't.
Amerijet International ALPA
page dated Dec 5, 2023
Published today
260 pilots · 757-200: 6, 767-200: 4, 767-300: 8, 767-300F: 3
No domiciles listed. No pay rates shown at all — only a calculator with sliders.
16 on / 12 off per 28-day bid · 74-hr guarantee · day-off flying pays 150%
The gap is the point
A pilot considering Amerijet cannot learn what it pays or where it's based from the page that exists to answer exactly those two questions. Per diem is quoted relative to "agreement signing date" — a date the page never states.
Answered from the line — 19 Aug 2026
A line pilot filled this in
41 pilots furloughed 28 Feb 2026 — corroborated
Maersk contract cancelled, no more China flying — corroborated
Fleet now 11 aircraft, against the 21 published — single source, unconfirmed
Pay scales as published are correct · not currently hiring
He added, unprompted: "I tried to update Amerijet's but it wouldn't take." He had already tried to fix it at the source, and the correction went nowhere. FreightWaves reported on 30 Jan 2026 that the Maersk cancellation — roughly 30% of Amerijet's flight hours — would furlough about 35 pilots at the end of the following month. He says 41, on 02/28/26. He is more precise than the trade press and seven months ahead of this page. Ninety minutes, one pilot, no incentive.

So — how much of this is wrong?

I built this from the outside, in a browser, in an afternoon. That's the limit of what desk research can establish. Everything marked needs a line pilot is a question I genuinely can't answer and you probably can, in seconds, off the top of your head.